shipping meme! :D

[the_ragnarok]

from ilovetakahana:

1. Think of up to 20 ships you support. (Got 9. Close enough...?)
2. List them using descriptions of the characters involved rather than their names.
3. Have your f-list guess as many of the ships as they can.
4. Fandom hints will be given if asked in the comments.

Some of these are obvious, some are a bit obscure, one or two may just be the way I see them and everyone else will go 'bzuh?'...

1. The sensitive one, figuratively + the sensitive one, literally. Blair/Jim (The Sentinel), guessed by solvent
2. The one who'll never stop wanting new adventures + the one who'll take him there every time.
3. The one who loves to inflict pain + the one who needs to feel it. Schuldig/Farfarello (Weiss Kreuz), guessed by kleinelady1
4. Too brilliant to look away from + so deceptively ordinary that you have to look again, because there's clearly more there. Sherlock/John (BBC's Sherlock), guessed by kleinelady1 and solvent
5. Every man's fantasy + the one who'll never stop dreaming.
6. The best at their respective vocations, their ultimate trust is for each other. - Arthur/Eames (Inception), guessed by ilovetakahana
7. The one who waited 2000 years + the one who re-created him from memories and determination. Rory/Amy (Doctor Who), guessed by ilovetakahana
8. The one who's too good at hiding himself + the one who wears his everything on his sleeve.
9. The hoarder of all magical knowledge + the only one he would teach.

Comments

[ex_solvent311]

Is 4. Sherlock Holmes (BBC incarnation), John/Sherlock? And, based on fannish osmosis, 1. could be The Sentinel, Jim/Blair?

[the_ragnarok]

Accurate on both accounts! fannish osmosis is a marvelous thing, truly. :D

[ex_solvent311]

:D I know absolutely nothing about Sentinel canon - I don't even know what the characters look like - but I'm pleased that my reading of random mpreg/soulbonding/pining fic from 2001 or so has paid off. \o/

[the_ragnarok]

tbh most of my participation in TS fandom (including writing... yikes XD) happened way before I watched any actual episodes. I remember looking at screen caps of the actors, deeming them unattractive to my tastes, and proceeding to imagine my own independently formed mental images of the characters (as derived from things I read, natch) as I read and wrote. /o\